It is true that many white people and all people on the right have taken sides. The problem is that this is a reaction to the race baiting and racial politics of the left, Democrats and many black Americans including Obama who keep playing identity politics. We should be getting away from that. Most Americans thought when Obama was elected with a major support of whites, we could put race behind us finally. That would have been Obama's great legacy for America, not Obamacare. But as President, he continued to play race politics for the vote and power for him and Democrats. But he blew it by going to bed with people like Al Sharpton. Many white people who voted for him feel that they were thrown under the bus. The president didn't address their concerns and was favoring his race over everyone else's when he should be treating everyone fairly as Americans. He also favored the rich and connected, as Hillary did. So now we are faced with reactionary politics from the right.
Additionally, the politics of the left regarding gender, gay, etc. are not addressing the issues that many people are concerned with including the economy and jobs. Instead of Democrats and Republicans working together to see how we can improve these things, they have become wedge issues on both sides for political votes. We're biting our noses off to spite our faces.
I agree: jobs and prosperity are way up the list for an America which is hurting in this regard. And most people of most political persuasions probably don't have much time for the latest studenty muppet one-legged transgendered experiment in something or another. They might not much care one way or the other but they don't want it put before their jobs and their families. However, there are ways of working towards these things and ways of blowing the whole thing apart into one big pile of chaos and, ominously, inter-racial unrest. This is playing with fire. The problem is that the Trump-Bannon method involves blowing everything apart - and the results are there for all to see in a failing government. America has deep reserves of good government and it should have deep reserves of politicians skilled at bringing people together, not driving them apart, and skilled at stopping the crazy blame game between two opposing camps which just use it as an excuse to avoid facing up to reality and getting stuff done.
I'm a huge supporter of America and it saddens me to see it descending into this. Forget going on about whose fault it might be - that won't lead anywhere. I just think Trump is a big mistake who'll probably end up imploding anyway. Get beyond the guy. The Republicans would still hold the reins, much though the Democrats might not like it, and under another and this time sane and skilled leader there is much more chance of making progress on the jobs and prosperity front. There is zero chance with Trump, imho, except more chaos, scandal, broken alliances and all the rest. At best he'll have to be tied up, kept away from the gun cabinet and retained as a lame duck while the actual job of government is left to people who are up to the task. That's just four wasted years.
